David Frum Smacked Down Again

You'd think this war-mongering hack and George W. Bush hagiographer would eventually tire of being publicly humiliated every time he puts words to print, but no. Apparently Frum's parents forgot to teach him the virtue of shame. Or perhaps his master Richard Perle beat it out of him. So, anyway, this time the monster of "moderation" has been busted back down to his dank cellar by Milton Friedman's son David, on occasion of Frum's pathetic attempt at defending the Federal Reserve System from...

McCain-Lieberman Bill a Major Threat to Liberty

Writes Anthony Gregory at C4L: Former Democratic VP candidate Joe Lieberman and former GOP presidential candidate John McCain have introduced a new detention policy bill in response to the Christmas Day underwear bomber. From The Atlantic: "A close reading of the bill suggests it would allow the U.S. military to detain U.S. citizens without trial indefinitely in the U.S. based on suspected activity." Read the rest.

From Now On America Only Fights Civilians

It says here in the Washington Post that the Powell Doctrine of overwhelming force is gone for good. Now is the era of the Long War: relatively low-scale violence against civilians in occupied lands from now until a dollar's a penny (which, come to think of it, might not be too long from now). As somebody wrote in a book I read one time (I suppose it could have been Andrew Bacevich, The Limits of Power), the Pentagon boys took their humiliation in Vietnam pretty hard and so decided to gear the...